Cooking with apples in autumn

In Israel now, pomegranates, grapes and clementines are popular. Clementines are a hybrid of a mandarin orange and a sweet orange. Apples are also popular and, personally, apples are my favourite fall and winter fruit. I’m really a firm believer that “an apple a day keeps the doctor away”! Here are some apple recipes to try.

Baked apples

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4 cored apples

2 tsp. lemon juice

4 tsp. brown sugar

2 tsp. ground cinnamon

6 tsp. raisins (optional)

vanilla extract (optional)

½ cup rum, sherry or apple juice

Preheat oven to 350.

Place apples in a baking dish. Sprinkle with lemon juice. Fill centres with brown sugar and raisins if using. Drizzle with vanilla, if using, and cinnamon.

Sybil Kaplan is a journalist, author, compiler/editor of nine kosher cookbooks, and a food writer who lives in Jerusalem, where she leads weekly walking tours of the Jewish food market, Machane Yehuda, in English.